Less flashy in its post-modernism than the MI6 building, more sober in its brick-framed glass curtain walling, Sally Malone would have pointed out that this was the two-bob side of the block, as against the half-crown riverbank site of the other building.1999, Barry Maitland, The Chalon Heads: A Kathy and Brock Mystery, page 181:
Judging from the spectrum and the brightness Dr Stickland “wouldn′t give two bob either way”.1975 September 4, “Monitor: Nova Honda brightens the night sky”, in New Scientist, page 515:
Derived terms
bent as a two bob note, get one's two bob's worth, give two bob each way, have one's two bob's worth, silly as a two bob watch